Joel Chace

AUDIO

Embarked

 

 

 

cagey              having not volunteered embarked upon

unfamiliar avenues              stepping on cracks to break

question of a betting table when no one’s              in the room

welcoming din is better              is breath is white cauldron boiling       
      

over its slanted rim              hate exams love essays

flooding their margins try a little tenderness              and crime

 

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flash-frames continuum              engineer’s hand flung

through locomotive’s steel-cut square              wouldn’t be gazing        
    

into the present              low rain of wrapped hard candies wouldn’t

be writing all these              blur of coal cars and caboose men’s

faces              then two small brothers scrambling over

that back yard              would make circles or decisions

 

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